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TIL During WW2, a US politician got 800 sailors killed after bragging to the press about the Japanese setting off depth charges too early.

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MXoW TIL Bill Clinton sent a total of 2 emails during his presidency.
a8MW0 TIL Pedongi, an Indian Army Service Corps mule, was captured by Pakistan during the 1971 Indo-Pak war. She later defected back to Indian lines with a Pakistani MMG and two boxes of ammo and was later awarded Vir Chakra, India's third highest military award.
bJMa TIL: The 2001 video game Ghost Recon takes place during a fictional 2008 Russian invasion of Georgia. In reality, Russia would actually invade Georgia that year.
LQVZr TIL the only confirmed case of poisoned Halloween candy was in 1974 when Ronald O'Bryan murdered his son Timothy by giving him pixie sticks laced with cyanide to collect insurance money
a8vX9 TIL that the anthem of the French football club Le Havre AC is sung to the tune of God Save the King to honour its English founders